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Citroen E-Mehari/Bollore Bluesummer

Citroen caught people by surprise with its announcement to start building the E-Mehari from the spring of 2016. That would have been a very quick transition from the Cactus-M Concept revealed in Frankfurt this fall to production ready car. But even a brief glance at the car and the concept shows that these two have nothing in common, and that in fact the E-Mehari does not seem to share parts usually distributed throughout a producers range (side repeaters, rearview mirrors etc) with a Citroen in production. This should come as little surprise, however. Since September this year PSA has been producing the Bluesommer for the electric car company Bollere at its Rennes factory. Surprise, surprise, apart from a reskin (easy to do with plastic pannels) the E-Mehari is identical to the Bluesummer and matches its technical specifications to a T. Still a cool car though, but not quite a Citroen...

posted by car design @ 2:06 AM